Course materials:
syllabus, reader, videos, lectures

Announcements (old announcements move to bottom, where there are also visitors stats)

• May 25, 2005: The course is full and I am keeping a waitlist. I have closed the enrollment on GOLD, so trying to get in via GOLD as spaces open up will NOT work. You need to e-mail me to get on the list. I may give some codes out in mid-June, but probably not until classes start.
• May 12, 2005: Fall 2005 in HSSB 4020, T-Th 9:30-10:45, and Bldg 387, rm 103, W 6-9pm.
  enrollment code 51276. If a waitlist is necessary, e-mail me and information will be posted on this page.
  Note: the syllabus (2003 syllabus) and readings will change for this new offering; information on this site should be used as a guide only!
• March 10, 2005: I will be teaching this course again during Fall quarter 2005, probably on Tue-Thu (my first three time choices are: starting at 11, 9:30 or 12:15), with an enrollment of 40-50.
• Nov. 13, 2004: Fred Diamant, noted Holocaust survivor, died today. The hanging of Fred's brother was described by Elie Wiesel in his memoir/novel Night. See this excellent LA Times obituary.
• Sept. 2004: Last month a new German film about the Feb. 1943 protest by Christian German women of the arrest of their Jewish husbands in Berlin was released in the US: The Women of Rosenstrasse.
  • In August I participated in a scholarly discussion on H-German. See also:
  • official US film site (click on "dates" for venues);
  • interview with screenwriter Pamela Katz;
  • Pat Dowell's Aug. 2004 report on NPR's Morning Edition (6:41 mins.);
  • page of links to additional resources;
  • review of Nathan Stoltzfus's book summarizes the historical event;
  • imdb info
  • Jan Lisa Huttner's Sept. 2004 review in films42.com
• Apr. 27, 2004: A newspaper series in the Toldeo Blade about an elite troop of US soldiers ("Tiger Force") who committed massacres of civilians over an extended period in 1967 was awarded a Pulitzer prize. Especially the present-day interviews with the men (who were 19 back then) illuminate some of the theories about how "ordinary men" can commit genocide. See esp. days 3 and 4 of the series (link). [or just google: toledo blade tiger force]
• April 21, 2004: I added a "professor's note" to the Nazi Women web project, one of the better student projects available from this course. A visitor to this site noted that it had similiarity to a published book that was not cited, and thought it might be plagiarism. It was NOT--as explained in that introductory note. But it presents an interesting lesson on how slippery the issue can be (link).
• Dec. 15, 2003: The final grade distribution is as follows (point totals are WITHOUT the 10 participation pts):
  

  # students	77-79pts=B+     9	67-69pts=C+   2	D    0
  83-85pts=A    12	73-76pts=B       5	64-66pts=C     2	D-  0	missing/incomplete: 2
  80-82pts=A-    9	70-72pts=B-     3	pts=C-   0	F    0	total:   44

  If you think your grade contains an error, please see my grading policies section, below.
• Dec. 14: I'll be updating the web projects page soon
• Dec. 14: Final Web Projects Handout uploaded
• Dec. 14: L16 Denial, 17 Art, 19 Anne Frank & Conclusion outlines added (some images still to come; added 12/14/03, 3pm)
• Dec. 10: last year's final point and grade distribution can be found on the old course web site (link).
  See also the grading policies section, below.
• Dec. 9, 10am: Project index page is now operational: WEB PROJECTS INDEX PAGE
• Dec. 3: The first uploaded web project is on Nazi Medicine; Persecution of Homosexuals; Anne Frank Reviews; Review of Goldhagen; 1920s project; burden of survival; Nuremberg Trials; survivors; US and Holocaust; France; Skokie; Protocols of the Elders of Zion; Auschwitz Camp; euthanasia nurses; David Irving Trial;

Course materials and lecture outlines (back to top)

Reader Table of Contents
Journal assignment handout:
professor's 1999 journal, prof's 2003 journal, page of links to media sources
Final Web Project Handout

• L1: L1 outline, syllabus, Journal and Final Project Assignment handout, essay on fruit salad & smoothies
• L2: My Research on Dachau (no images yet)
• L3: Adolf Hitler, 1889-1925
• L4: The 1920s: Golden or Leaden?
• L5: Life in the 1930s
  Links on Maus: page of links; 2002 Maus reading questions
• L6: Kristallnacht
• L7: Eugenics and Euthanasia
• L8: Auschwitz
• L9: Höss and Eichmann
• L10: Battalion 101
• L11: Collaboration
• L12: Jewish Resistance (midterm evaluation form)
• L13: German Resistance
• L14: Analysis of Resistance
• L15: visit by Holocaust survivors Nina Morecki and Lili Schiff (link)
  (for Nina's story see Prof. Marcuse's Holocaust Oral History Project website)
• L16: Holocaust Denial
• L17: Art & Fascism (read Susan Sontag essay) + Anne Frank [postponed to last lecture]
• L18: no formal class meeting [Tue. before Thanksgiving]: group project consultation meetings
• L19: Concluding Lecture (with Anne Frank)
• [Final exam] Oral presentations of final projects; see final projects handout, and projects index page
  (2002 exam; pdf for printing)

Web projects: suggested topics (back to top)

• Leni Riefenstahl: Aesthetics of Fascism; The Ethics of Art as Propaganda; Myth of Ignorance
  • Archival website "Das blaue Licht" (most richly illustrated, w/ screenplay of Triumph of the Will); homepage in Germany; in German: inoffizielle homepage
  • npr audio reports; Nuba and Olympia photos for sale;
• Anne Frank is the subject of many sites (see Women and the Holocaust website):
  • official institutional sites in Netherlands, US, UK, Deutschland (in German)
  • Nicole Gaspari's very detailed site (German student who first saw an Anne Frank film when she was 16 in 1998)
  • review of Melissa Mueller's biography of Anne in the Denver Post
  • essay about M. Mueller's biography by a student in my Hist. 133Q, 2001
• Australian Genocide
  • Materials from Prof. Dirk Moses: select bibliography.
    Article on the origins of genocide in colonization (in Journal of Genocide Research, 2000);
    Article on indigenous genocide and the Holocaust (30 page pdf, in: Patterns of Prejudice, 2002)
  • Film "Rabbit Proof Fence" (2001). Based on a true story, written by the protagonist's daughter Doris Pilkington Garimara (142 page book on amazon).
    European Network for Indiginous Australian Rights' page about Doris Pilkington (by Nugi Garimara), page about film.
    Other web sites: reeltalk review w/ interview, filmcritic.com, The Guardian, short bbc review w/ interview, www.rabbitprooffence.com.au
• Racist and Holocaust denial websites:
  • Stormfront, CODOH (deniers recruiting students), Zundelsite (one of the older deniers)
  • Links to sites about the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (a Russian forgery from around 1900) (by David Dickerson)
  • Holocaust Denial on Trial: David Irving vs. Penguin Books/Deborah Lipstadt trial (1999-2000)
• Yana/Yahi indians of Northern California 1848-1916L Was their intentional extinction genocide?
  See Nov. 2002 article in Northern California Gazette (link);
  Was Ishi a Yahi? (UCSF standard story; Hought.-Miff. Encyc. entry; UC Berkeley press release; Hearst Anthro Musuem exhib; page w/ bibliography)
  See Theodora Kroeber's 1961 book Ishi in Two Worlds (esp. for background), UCSB E90.I8 K7, multiple copies

• I would like everyone to sign up for an e-mail mail server. This will enable me (or you) to send messages to the whole class by using the address hist33d@history.ucsb.edu.
• To sign up: go to the site: https://mail.lsit.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hist33d. At the bottom, enter your e-mail and select a password. After I've confirmed, you're done.
• Did you forget your password? No problem! Just go to that same page, and all the way down at the bottom, in the "Edit Options" box, type in your e-mail and click the button. Your password will be e-mailed to you. (You only need your password to change your options or view the list of subscribers.)

Links to interesting web sites [updated: 9/22/03] (back to top)

• Film "Shanghai Ghetto": www.shanghaighetto.com; making the film with quicktime (suggestion from Albert Leung)
• Art and the Holocaust site by Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (Kibbutz in Israel founded by former ghetto resistance fighters). Sophisticated design and classroom activities, only a few works each from 27 artists. (suggestion from Albert Leung)
• commented, alphabetical list of Holocaust links (Prof. Al Filreis, English, UPenn)
• Holocaust Links page (Joyce Meyer, Champaigne-Urbana Jewish Federation)
• Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings from the University of the West of England.
  Timeline, Documents, Glossary, Functionaries of the Third Reich, War Crimes and Criminals,
  Genocide and Mass Killing, The Jewish Holocaust, World War II Resources.
• Hypermedia Sourcebook: "Responses to the Holocaust," by Robert Leventhal, Univ. of Virginia (not recently updated, with a fair number of dead links, but still interesting)

Some on-line Holocaust/Germany courses [updated: 9/22/03] (back to top)

• "Perspectives on Genocide," by Carol and Sam Edelman, sociology/communication studies at CSU Chico
• "The Holocaust - in Western Civilization," by Edith Shaked, history at Pima Comm. College, Tucson, Arizona. 15 sets of detailed lecture notes and study guides. Note list of videos in syllabus. 1999, 2003.
• "Germans, Jews, and the Holocaust" by Robert Moeller, history dept. at UC Irvine
• "The Holocaust" by Dan Rogers, history, Univ. of South Alabama
• "Holocaust" (in literature), PDF syllabus by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, U Texas/Dallas (Fall 2001)
• "History of the Holocaust" by Stephan Fine, University of Minnesota. The links on the left lead to interesting courses on Holcaust and Theater (Prof. Skloot), and Holocaust and Law (Prof. Bazyler).
• "Holocaust: History, Meaning, Aftermath" by Bjorn Krondorfer, religious studies, St. Mary's, Maryland (Spring 1999)
• "Perspectives on the Holocaust and Genocide," by Myrna Goodman et al, Sonoma State (Spring 2002)(with some lecture texts and good links list)
• "Genocide, Mass Violence, and Human Rights: A Path to Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum and Promoting Social Responsibility"by Linda Woolf, Psychology, Webster University (St. Louis, MO): two in-depth syllabi with links page
• "Hitler's Germany," by Gerhard Rempel, history, Western New England College: very well-designed site with lecture texts
• "Sociology of Genocide and the Holocaust" by Ben Austin, Middle Tennessee State Univ. In contrast to that simple syllabus, his Holocaust page has a very detailed set of links.
• The Holocaust (pdf syllabus) by Jere Jackson, S.F.A. State University, Nacogdoches, Texas (uses my Dachau book as a textbook)
• Hamburg Center for Holocaust Education (essays and resources on education, not a course)

Materials from Prof. Marcuse's other Holocaust courses (back to top)

• Hist 33D: "The Holocaust: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" (lower division)
  • Fall 2002 website
• Hist 133D: "The Holocaust in German History" (an upper-division lecture course)
  • 2001 133D syllabus, web site
  • 1999 syllabus, web site (with all lecture handouts)
  • 1998 syllabus
  • 1996 syllabus
• Hist 133Q: "Readings in Holocaust History" (a seminar course for 15 students)
  • Fall 2001 133Q syllabus
  • Fall 1999 133Q syllabus
  • Winter 1999 133Q syllabus
  • 1998 133Q syllabus

GRADING (back to top)

NOTE: The Fall 2002 final grade distribution is published on the old course web site.
Grading can serve many purposes. Among them are: motivating students to do the work by providing feedback and rewarding effort, assessing how well students have done the work, and ranking students relative to each other.
I personally hate grading. I'm interested in what you have to say, and want you to put in the effort to develop interesting thoughts and express them well. I hope you will be motivated to learn enough factual material to have a solid basis upon which you can develop your thoughts. If you need the prospect of a better grade to do the learning and thinking, fine. For various reasons, I have to grade to assess your work anyway (if I write letters of recommendation, for instance, I need some data on relative strengths and weaknesses, and effort expended). The grade distributions I give my courses are also monitored by the department and the University.
My bottom line: I want the grades I give to be a FAIR reflection of the effort and learning you show, and to give a rough indication of where you stand on those factors relative to others in the class.

If you are think your grade does not reflect your work or effort:

• First, please note that I grade YOUR WORK, not you.
• If you feel that the grade you received on your paper or exam does not correspond to the quality of work that you submitted, or the effort you put into it, you have two options:
  1. Print out, complete, and submit the following
     Grade Change Application Form ;-),
     OR:
  2. Write a page (or paragraph, whatever it takes) explaining WHY you think your work is better than the grade assigned to it. Please refer to the blue assignment sheet (for journals and web projects), and make sure you did the assignment.
     • Then resubmit the work in question with your explanation, and I will regrade it and get back to you.
     • Be sure to put some contact address on your explanation sheet, so that I can be in touch with you.
     • Note that I reserve the right to lower your grade, if I feel that is warranted by closer examination

Picking up your work

I keep all student work for at least one quarter after the course is over. If you would like to pick up your work, please come to my office. During my office hours is usually best for me, but if you would like your work left in the envelope outside my door, or to arrange a different pick-up time, send me an e-mail or leave a note.

Old Announcements (back to top)

• May 8, 2003: For students registering for this course for Fall 2003: German 10A will explore authentic German text and film material related to the topics discussed in Hist 33D. It is open to all students; no prior knowledge of German is required. If you want to get the most out of Hist 33D: I highly recommend concurrent enrollment in German 10A. Students who took the equivalent German course last year had among the highest grades in the class. (Meets M,W, 2-3:15.) One student did a number of interviews for my Holocaust Oral History Project (see page with Jeremy Garsha's work). [Note 10/1/03: none of the students in 33D ended up taking this course. One who went to the first meeting said that the 4-unit commitment was too much.]
• May 31, 2003: I've selected 3 of the 4 books for Fall 2003. The textbook is new this year, namely: Enzo Collotti, Hitler and Nazism (Interlink Illustrated History).

  $9-15 at amazon $9- at fetchbook	$18-20 at amazon $6- at fetchbook	OUT OF PRINT photocopies will be in reader

  Art Spiegelman's Maus (both volumes) and Gerald Markle's Meditations of a Holocaust Traveler will remain the same as last year. I have yet to select a memoir (check back in late August).
• June 16, 2003: 52 students are enrolled, and the course has been closed to new enrollment. The course needs to shrink to 40-50 because of funding.
  E-mail Prof. Marcuse (me) if you want to be placed on a waiting list.
• Aug. 30, 2003: One book (at right) is out of print, so I'll provide the relevant chapters as photocopies in the reader. We will be doing web projects as the culminating assignment this year (see sample topic, below). I'm still selecting the memoir that we will read. 12 students are now enrolled in German 10A.
• Sept. 13, 2003: I'm starting work on a new web page for this year. The old page has now moved here.
• Sept. 23, 2003: The Course Reader will not be available (at copy services in the library) before Wed., 9/24 in the morning.
  Link for readings before tonight's films.
• Sept. 25, 2003: The Course Reader is available at copy services in the library. It costs ca. $31.35 ($34 including tax).
• Sept 30: Two films in Buchanan 1920 tonight (6:30-8pm): The Wave, 46mins., and 40 mins. from a 1961 biography of Adolf Hitler.
• Sept. 29: I'm trying to make an important Oct. 1 deadline, so I'm a little behind with uploading the lecture outlines and my sample journal entries. Hopefully caught up by Friday, 10/3.
• Sept 30/Oct. 1: Lecture 2 outline (no images yet) and Lecture 3 outline (with images) added.
• Oct. 5: 2 journal entries are due on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 11am. See blue handout for details.
• Oct. 5: L4 outline uploaded
• Oct. 5: please sign up on the class e-mail listserver (link). Only 13 people have signed up so far. (10/7, 10pm: 18 including me; 10/19: 25; 10/22: 26)
• Oct 6: prof's sample journal entries uploaded (link).
• Oct. 7: start reading Maus, vol. 1. See these resources: my study questions; links page
• Oct 7: L5 uploaded
• Oct 7: Question 1 on Thursday, 10/9, about Kristallnacht reading by Friedlander (Reader pp. 13-20, 13 book pages)
• Oct. 8: I'm sorry, but because of a meeting I have to cancel my office hours today (Wednesday). Please e-mail me to make an appointment.
• Oct. 19: talk by Elinor Langer today (Sunday), 3pm, Corwin pavillion, on her book "100 Little Hitlers"
• Oct. 19: Q2 on Tuesday, 10/21, re: Hoss and Fest readings
• Oct. 19: L6, L7 and L8 uploaded (map for L8 still to come; added 10/21).
• Oct 22: L9 (Hoess) added.
• Oct 22: On Oct. 23 I will pass around a sign-up sheet to organize the cars for the field trip to LA. Be sure to attend!
• Oct 24: L10 (Battalion 101) added.
• Oct. 22 (dates modified 10/24): Only 26 people are signed up for the class e-mail server (10/28: 29 people). The fourth midterm question will be announced on e-mail only, so be sure to sign up by 10/28!! (link). If you have trouble, send me an e-mail and I'll subscribe you. (admin link)
• Oct 28: L11 (Collaboration) added.
• Oct 28: Field Trip Sunday Nov. 2: meet at 8am at UCSB bus loop (or 10:15 at Museum of Tolerance) to go to 10:30-1:30 tour at LA Museum of Tolerance.
  We will then drive to the LA Museum of the Holocaust (link) for 2-4pm tour and discussion with a survivor.
  Return to UCSB, arrive ca. 6pm.
  Bring: LUNCH (no meal times calculated in!), and a photo ID for museum entrance.
  • These will be updated soon: Directions to Museum of Tolerance; to Museum of the Holocaust;
    Mapquest printable: UCSB to MOT; MOT to MOH, MOH to UCSB
  • 11/9/03: Updated directions page: html and pdf versions
• Nov. 1, 6pm: sorry, but I had absolutely no time to update the directions pages. I'll try to do some before we leave, and I'll bring printouts for the drivers.
  If you can't make the field trip, this article about the MOT will give you some of the analytical perspective.
  Addresses: MOT: 9786 West Pico Blvd.
  LA Museum of the Holocaust: 6006 Wilshire Blvd.
• Nov. 9: L12, L13, and L14 on Jewish, German, and theoretical analysis of resistance have been added, also midterm evaluation form
• Nov. 9: Nov. 11 is the Veterans' Day holiday. On Nov. 13 Holocaust survivors will come to speak to our class.
  For Nina Morecki's story, please read: 12 page "letter"
  (I'll post an updated message on Wednesday, Nov. 12).
• Nov. 9: The Art & Fascism lecture, originally scheduled for Nov. 13, will be combined with the Anne Frank lecture on Nov. 20. Please adjust the readings accordingly. This hypertext version of Susan Sontag's review essay on Fascist Aesthetics has more illustrations that the one in the reader (link).
• Nov. 11: Nina Morecki and Lili Schiff will visit our class on Thursday, 11/13. To prepare, please read Nina's story 1920-1945, and 1945-present, and Lili's story. Please think of some questions you would like either of the survivors to answer.
• Nov. 12: I must cancel my office hours today, since I'll be going to Pomona to pick up Nina Morecki. Contact me via e-mail to set up an appt. for Friday, after 11am.
• Nov. 17: On 11/18 I'll return your journals, which will be due again on 12/2. We'll also discuss the final projects, which are due Thursday, and make appointments for next week (before Thanksgiving).
• Dec. 1: sorry for my neglect of this page--surgery in the family on the day before Thanksgiving put a major crimp in my work plans, and I was unable to work on the handout for the final project. Here's some brief info:
  1. I will return your projects at the end of morning class Tuesday, 12/2.
  2. At our 6:30 class on 12/2 we will meet in 2626 Ellison (computer classroom) to prepare our web projects for publication.
  3. Since almost all of these projects were so excellent, the final examination has been changed to final presentations of the web projects, in HSSB 1174 on 12/9, noon-3pm.
  4. More info in class Dec. 2.